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Stop Burglars from entering your home with these steps

When you have put your heart, soul and a lot of money
into turning your house into a home, the last thing you would want is for
someone to break in and rob you.

A home intruder is scary to even think about, but
spending a few minutes of time recognising and fixing ways that your home is
vulnerable can pay off in the long run.

Owojela’s Blog will show you nine ways you may be
mistakenly exposing your home to burglars:

Rundown front door

Your front door is the first place burglars will look,
and a dilapidated front door signals that your home is an easy target. A clean,
painted front door gives the impression that the entire home is well-cared for
and harder to breach.

Single lock

Burglars look to see what kind of locks they will have
to navigate to enter and when they see only the standard cylinder lock, they
are more likely to have a go than if there is also a padlock visible. In short,
doubling up on locks makes your door physically more difficult to break into
and your home less appealing to burglars.

Enticing trash

The discarded boxes and bags from all your big-ticket
purchases are like advertisements to burglars of the valuables inside your
home. Prevent thieves from getting as excited over your new flat screen TV box
as you are with your new TV by keeping this type of garbage inside until trash
pickup day.

Dark exteriors

Burglars don’t like to risk being seen, so when you
create a barrier of light around your home using motion sensor-activated and
basic exterior lights, you are creating a barrier around your home through
which they are not likely to penetrate. Pay special attention to vulnerable
areas like front and back doors and walkways.

Welcoming landscaping

When planted beneath windows, bushes and shrubs are
not only pretty, but they are also an obstacle to climbing into windows.
Burglars are especially deterred by the kind of greenery that has thorns or
makes loud snapping noises. For trees reaching up to second-storey windows, be
sure to clean up lower branches so they can’t function as a ladder.

Overflowing mailbox

Piles of mail are a sign that you are out of town and
primed for a robbery. If you are going away for a while, use the ‘Request Hold
Mail’ service to stop delivery to your house. For shorter periods, you can tell
a trusted neighbour to help pick up your deliveries.

Visible interiors

You don’t want burglars to get a peek at all the
goodies you have inside your home, so shut the curtains, pull the shades, put a
giant houseplant in front of a street-facing window – do whatever you have to
do to keep unwanted eyes out. Be especially mindful at night when the dark sky
and lit interior combine to create a fishbowl effect in your home.

Empty house

Encountering the resident is way more than most
burglars are bargaining for. If they think you are in the house, they are
staying out of it, so make it look like someone is home by turning on a light
or two and even leaving on a TV or radio to make some noise. For prolonged
periods away, you can use electronic timers to turn them on and off
automatically.

Non-existent alarm system

They take a bit of financial investment, but a quality
alarm system is a huge burglar deterrent and a necessary one if you live in a
high-crime neighbourhood. Do your research and pick a reputable alarm company –
thieves know the bad and bogus alarm system signs – and consider high-tech
options, such as alarms with a camera that allows you to monitor your home from
anywhere.

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